More than 50,000 Ohioans sign up under Medicaid expansion

State call center also now meeting quality benchmarks

9:07 AM,
Mar. 12, 2014

Written by

Russ Zimmer
CentralOhio.com

After nearly three months, the state is about one-fifth of the way toward its goal of adding 275,000 newly eligible, low-income Ohioans into the Medicaid program.

As of the end of February, 54,031 Ohioans had signed up for the public health insurance program under expanded eligibility guidelines that were approved by the state in October, according to a monthly report released Monday by the Ohio Department of Medicaid.

The Medicaid department remains coy about whether the total leaves them in a position to reach the goal of 275,000 by the end of June 2015, set by Gov. John Kasich's ...